Im not saying do less eat less, Im saying do less, removing ‘junk’ volume and keeping your most effective work, and keep calories the same.
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Weight gain and loss are not linear for me, and looking around other logs on here tells me that that is a fairly normal phenomenon.
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Sorry, I misinterpreted
But you haven’t gained during the week either, meaning how you ate during the week wasn’t a surplus. As you gte back to a more healthy and functional weight you’re probably going to have lot of fluctuations coming from hormones starting to return to more normal levels and start working properly
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Which, to my mind, should be your main goal anyway.
Optimal function of the endocrine system is such a “hack” in terms of physical performance that they had to call it cheating.
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So I’m heavy and fluffy again… I just want to know what’s going on 
if I’m gaining weight, I’d like to know that it’s from a controlled calorie surplus, not from random factors or something I can’t control
I haven’t changed anything except drop sodium yet this is happening
Sorry for the rant 
Stop worrying about it. Workout, eat, rest, repeat.
Gaining weight is part of the plan.
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I guess heavy is matter of perspective, but following your log casually, you have never been “heavy”.
I am taller at 6’3 but am quite literally almost 3 of you at an average of 275-280lbs - I am heavy.
Gaining muscle is good. Forcing your body into a survival state is not (i.e. too much training with inadequate rest).
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I get that gaining is part of the process, I just don’t like how I’m gaining randomly without (on the surface) changing anything. The unknown is scary
To put it in simpler terms, if I’d conciously increased calories over the past couple of weeks, I wouldn’t be freaking out right now
A pound or two spread over your entire frame will hardly be noticeable even at your low weight.
Per BMI (which I know has its limitations) you are still underweight. “Normal”/healthy weight for your height would be up to 125 lbs ("normal"if your lean and muscular is even higher).
From your last check-in pic above, to me you went from looking like you were starving and unhealthy to “I don’t think she’s going to die anymore” (no offense - it’s my opinion - feel free to disregard).
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So I should basically brush this off as a fluke?
No - it’s progress in the right direction. Keep going and lay off the super intense conditioning workouts (as Pinky and others have suggested) and you will gain muscle mass. If you gain a pound of fat and5 lbs of muscle over the next few months you are still getting healthy and leaner (sounds counter intuitive but its true).
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Week 11: day3
1 arm push-ups: 4x5/side!!!
Push-ups: 2x(8-5050 tempo+20normal), 1x(4-5050 tempo+20normal)-failed 5th tempo rep, 90sec rests
10x(20sec kickboxing combo/side+20sec jumping jacks as rest)
2x(15rows/side-25lbs+20leg drops)-no rest
- felt good and strong going in, very happy w/push-up progress. @Voxel tempo is HARD kickboxing was fun, quick and intense, rows and abs suck as always
Got it! What I’m really frustrated with is that the gain wasn’t the result of me consciously changing anything- I’m pretty sure neither a kilo of muscle nor fat comes on literally overnight but water weight doesn’t stay for almost 2weeks and certainly not after cutting sodium (kidney reasons)
No, stress hasn’t increased nor has sleep decreased,
You’re overthinking it (a common problem with intelligent individuals like yourself).
Spitballing here - could have been waterweight or a huge meal at first, but your body may have taken that huge meal and subsequent large ones (you said you have been binging on protein and fatty meats) and actually feeding your muscle with the nutrition you need.
No one here denies that you are quite strong for your size (4x5 1 arm pushups is no joke). These new PRs you are hitting strength wise tells me you must be gaining muscle and in order to do that the muscle must be properly fed.
Are you storing more water in your muscle too? Probably, but that’s okay.
I don’t know what to tell you other than stop being scared lol.
It’s not unknown, you’re lifting heavy, weight gain should follow. Maybe your energy expenditure has been reduced, who knows. Be happy about the weight gain.
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Haha thanks 
We actually didn’t have a grill night last week and probably won’t have one this week
Idk, but they’re definitely not looking better
That’s the scary part. I won’t be gaining forever so if randomly decrease activity, I might have to reestabllish a lower maintenance at times that might not be convenient
Disagree there. Maybe personal opinion, but the rail thin look doesn’t do much (in terms of physical attractiveness). You still you look like you have good muscle definition going by what you have shared here. No need to be “competition lean” or close to it especially if you want to compete in powerlifting.In fact, that would be a detriment to performance.
Regardless of that, being at home has definitely balanced out your nutrition compared to college.
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Very true, much less crap a lot more butter
You need to get over this irrational fear. No one here can help you with that.
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